August 28, 2012

Pictures of Hunter

Here are some pictures of Hunter so far.  I can't believe how much he has changed in two and half months.

Hunter's blessing day, he was two weeks old


He was the ring bearer at his uncle Mike's wedding

The day he came home from the hospital, he was so tiny

He made this face pretty regularly when he was awake the first few weeks


Sleeping with dad

Fourth of July weekend in Missoula, MT

Hunter Taggart Martin

I'm finally writing about my sweet baby boy.  Hunter Taggart was born June 9, 2012 at 1:28 am.  He was 7 lbs. 2 oz. and 20 inches long.  

My water broke at 10:30 Friday morning, luckily I had just taken a shower.  After calling my doctor's office, my friend Amy to come pick me up and Josh's office I finished getting ready and made sure I had everything for the hospital.  Amy and I swung by Carl's Jr on the way since I knew I wouldn't be eating anything for a while.  

Since I wasn't actually in labor the nurses checked to make sure that my water had indeed broken.  Then there was just lots of waiting.  Amy stayed with me until Josh got to the hospital.  He had been doing IV that day so he finished up with a few more patients and came over.  He never even went home, his assistant Jayden had to buy him an outfit to wear.  Around 4 I started feeling contractions and by 6 they were pretty intense.  Since I had always planned on getting an epidural I decided I had had enough contractions and the anesthesiologist hooked  me up.  After that it wasn't too bad. By 10 I was fully dilated, but I decided to wait an hour to let Hunter descend a little further.   I started pushing a little after 12.   I didn't have to push too long before my nurse told me to stop since the doctor was on his way.  After my doc got there I pushed for maybe 30-40 minutes and poof there he was, this tiny perfect little baby.  Don't be mislead by this post; there was still lots of stitches, some throwing up, turning blue because of need of oxygen, and lack of food for far too long mixed in there.  But it wasn't as bad as I had imagined.  Now all the stuff that comes after delivery, that was much worse than I had imagined.  Did I mention my mom was there?  She flew in Friday night, which was wonderful.  My bestie Amy came back Friday night and did a great job capturing all the excitement.  Here are a few pics from that day.











It was a very special day that I will never forget.  I love my little boy more that I could have every imagined.  There is nothing better than being a mom.



January 19, 2012

Pregnancy Thus Far

I found out I was pregnant in the middle of the night in October. I really didn't think I was. But after a restless night of sleeping and accidentally waking Josh up at three in the morning he mumbled, "Can you just go pee on a stick?!" I did it to appease him and turns out it was positive. We couldn't sleep for the rest of the night. This wasn't really a good thing since we were getting up early to drive to Texas to spend the weekend with Josh's family. I had one day to bask in the joy of being pregnant before full blown morning sickness kicked in.

This so called morning sickness has lasted all day everyday up until maybe two and half weeks ago. Now it's hit and miss some days are good, some days are bad. It's amazing how good good days are. Life is wonderful on good days. I am so happy that I am having more of those days now. I also hate food, almost all food. I don't really have cravings I have to think of something that isn't going to make me sick, which is pretty much hamburgers. Today at my check up I found out what might be the cause of this. Cross your fingers that it is, cause I would really enjoy eating again with out taking nausea meds to make me enjoy it.

We found out we were having a boy a few weeks ago at one of those fetal photo places. Seemed a little iffy to me, but the guy that performed the ultrasound had been an OB in Lithuania for 15 years. That made it seem a bit more legit. At my appointment today my doc confirmed with out a doubt it is a boy. Everything appears to be developing very well. :)

I've got 5 more months to go, so exciting. Here's to hoping they are better than the last few.
It's small, but the start of my baby bump at 18 weeks

Getting an ultrasound today, Amy assured me that I did not have a sweat spot when she took the pic, it's a shadow. phewwww!

January 03, 2012

A Baby Boy







Josh and I will be welcoming this little guy into our lives in June. We could not be more excited!

January 02, 2012

2011

I can't believe 2011 is over and it's already 2012. Where does the time go? Last year brought lots of excitement and lots of changes:

moving back to Tucson
becoming Mrs. Martin
an amazing trip to Fiji
fun with friends
wonderful trip to Africa
move to Utah

It's all been a great adventure and I am looking forward to exciting changes in 2012!